Word: ako
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...which ensure that the schism between their peoples will endure. In the days immediately following Pearl Harbor, the island becomes a hotbed of racism. Local authorities haul the Japanese residents off to internment camps--an act which serves to justify the anti-white attitudes held by Hatsue's mother (Ako) and many of the other Japanese. When Ishmael's father (Sam Shepard) prints an editorial denouncing the internment camps, virtually the entire white community turns against him in a fury of anti-Japanese sentiment. And, in the midst of the hatred, Ishmael hopes in vain that his relationship with Hatsue...